Solution to Bangla Font viewing problem on Mozilla Firefox

A lot of complain about Bangla font viewing can be found on various blogs and forums. After many days I've found a solution to Bangla font viewing problem on mozilla firefox. This solution is the most effective and tested on several computers, having different OS. So now let's see the solution.

First of all, you'll need to have the font, 'SolaimanLipi'. Download the font from here. Secondly, you'll have to download Avro Keyboard and install it on your computer. After installation, go to the folder where you've installed Avro keyboard. It's probably in C:\Program files\Avro Keyboard\. Here you'll find a file named Font fixer. Click on it. When it will open, select 'SolaimanLipi' from the drop-down menu of 'Choose your font'. Now click 'Fix it. Then you'll be asked to restart PC to take effect. Restart your PC. That's all about font configuration on system.

Now let's configure Firefox. Here first of all, click 'Tools' from the menu bar and then click 'Options'. If you don't see menu bar, click 'Firefox' on the top right side of your firefox window. Here you'll see a bunch of functions in two columns. On the 2nd column you'll see 'options'. Click it. Then click 'Content' tab. Here On 'Fonts & Colors' tab, select 'Times New Roman' as default font. Now click 'Advanced'. Here make changes like the setting given below:

Fonts for : Western
Proportional : Serif
Serif : Times New Roman
Sans-serif : SolaimanLipi
Monospace : Tahoma

Place a tick mark on the check box of 'Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selection above'. Leave it without any change if you already see the tick mark on the check box of this option.

Now select 'Unicode (UTF-8)' as default Character Encoding on 'Character Encoding' tab. Now click OK. and close the options again pressing OK.

That's all. Now restart your browser and then you'll find that all your Bangla font viewing related problems have been solved.

Review of Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini Pro

The form of mobile phone is changed largely at present. Now it’s not only a voice call making device, we can also send text message. No, sending message isn’t new now. It’s also a very old conception at this age of advanced technology. Now we can capture quality picture, record HD videos, record sounds, use high speed internet and even everything on our tiny mobile device.

Smart phones have changed the conception of mobile phone. This device can be used as a digital personal assistant now, because now we can do almost everything by our smart phones. Smart phone are also falling a great impact on world economy. At present, a very large competition is going on among the mobile phone manufacturers. So, almost every day various types of smart phones are being produced by mobile phone manufacturer. So, it’s been become quite hard to choice the right one according one’s need. Now a day, a middle class earned person also wish to worth a smart phone of his own. Those who want to have a average quality smart phone in his economic ability, Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini Pro can be a smart choice for them. It’s a very smart looking tiny smart device that will be able to satisfy your smart phone thirst. The phone is easy to hold, easy to carry and comfortable to use.

So, now before describing the special features of XPERIA X10 Mini Pro, let’s see the main specification of it.

• -Network Bands: Quad-band 2G network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 3G network: HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100
• -SIM: General mini SIM
• -Body dimension: Length-90mm; Width-57mm and 17mm thick
• -Input method: Numeric (Touch); QWERTY (Side Slider Keyboard)
• -Display: TFT (Thin Film Transistor) capacitive touch-screen display Color property: 16M colors (65K effective) Display size: 2.6 inches (about); Resolution: 240x320. Protection: Scratch-resistant glass
• -Supported media formats: Sound: mp3, eAAC, WMA, WAV Video: 3GP, mp4, H.253, H.264, WMV
• -Memory: External card supports up to 16GB, 2GB Free (At purchage, offer varies) Internal: 128MB
• -Connectivity: GPRS: Up to 85.6kbps EDGE: Up to 236.8kbps 3G: HSDPA 7.2Mbps; HSUPA 2Mbps WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Wi-Fi hotspot (v2.2 or higher) Bluetooth: version 2.1 wit A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) USB: Micro USB version 2.0
• Camera: 5 mega pixels; resolution: 2592x1944; LED Flash, auto-focus, GEO Tagging VGA (Video Graphics Arrey) Video recording at 30 frames per seconds, video light
• Operating System: Android OS, v1.6 (Donut), upgradable to v2.1; JAVA support via JAVA MIDP imulator
• Processing units: Chipset: Qualcomm MSM7227; CPU: 600 MHz ARM 11; GPU: Adreno 200
• Sensors: Accelerometer, proximity and compass sensor
• Messaging: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push email, IM
• Browser type: HTML, also support xHTML and HTML 5 in third party browsers like opera mini, UCWEB
• Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS (Radio Data System)

These are Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini Pro’s basic functions. Now let’s see which special features this phone has:

First of all, this phone looks very attractive and you will feel comfort holding this phone at your hand. It has a smooth side slider and the keys are decorated so nicely that you can type on it smoothly. The touch screen is also very sensitive. Sometimes it is felt that the functions are working before you touch. This is such sensitive. The sound quality of this phone is also very clear. You can watch high quality videos on your phone. It supports video playback of 380p with 512 Kbps video bit rate and more than 192Kbps audio bit rate. Like all Sony Smart phones, this phone also have Time Scape user interface which allow user to check the call history, text messages and other current activities by sliding separate windows. The 600 MHz processor allows you to operate this phone very fast.

Price and availability: Though at present there is no market of Sony Mobile in Bangladesh, particular Sony Ericsson dealers bring Sony phones from abroad and sell those obeying the market rule. Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini Pro is available in almost all popular famous shops of all districts in Bangladesh. The price is 13,800 BDT only. Now it’s your chance if you’ll choose this phone or not.

(N.B: All photos are taken from http://gsmarena.com/. Phone specifications are written based on personal experience)